Re: [orca-list] I wound up rewriting Mouse Review

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey John.

I plan to add an option whereby you can choose to move the mouse pointer
during flat review. (That option is not yet in place.)

--joanie

On 08/30/2016 12:14 AM, John Covici wrote:
> Thanks.  I wonder if flat review  should actually move the mouse
> pointer like it does in screen readers under other operating systems.
> I could see some advantages doing that.
>
> Thanks again for all your hard work on Orca, you are doing a terriffic
> job.
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:59:49 -0400,
> Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hey John.
> >
> > It's for users with enough vision to use a physical mouse, but not
> > enough vision to read what they are hovering over. Docs can be found
> > here: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/howto_mouse_review.html
> >
> > HTH.
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 08/29/2016 09:13 PM, John Covici wrote:
> > > OK, what is mouse review and how do you invoke it?  I have never seen
> > > a key binding for something like that.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:55:56 -0400,
> > > kendell clark wrote:
> > > > hi
> > > >
> > > > I haven't noticed much of a difference when testing the new mouse
> > > > review functionality but I did notice something I've been
> > > > wondering about. Would it be possible to enable the "show
> > > > tooltips" option to announce when orca's arrowing around, not
> > > > just when using the mouse? The tooltips attached to desktop icons
> > > > are usually helpful and describe what the icons do, so could help
> > > > new users.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Kendell Clark
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 08/29/2016 07:10 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > > > Hey all.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't know if any of you use Mouse Review (which is not the same as
> > > > > Flat Review). But if you do use it, please check for regressions as I
> > > > > unexpectedly rewrote it. (Unexpectedly because I innocently started out
> > > > > writing some methods to be shared between Flat Review, which I am
> > > > > deliberately rewriting, and Mouse Review. In the process, I found so, so
> > > > > many things broken in Mouse Review that I largely torched it and started
> > > > > over.)
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm going back to Flat Review now. <tired smile> Thanks!
> > > > > --joanie
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